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Devoid of morality Indian media crawling before rulers | Arun Srivastava
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Alarming Increase in Lightning Deaths in Bihar | Bharat Dogra
11 July 2020Between June 25 and July 4 as many as 120 persons died in Bihar due to lightning strikes. In addition there were several other deaths due to the same cause during the same period in neighboring state of Uttar Pradesh. Several others were injured (...) -
Indigenous and Afro-Brazilian lands are under greater threat in Brazil during COVID-19 | Elielson Pereira da Silva, Diana Cordoba
11 July 2020The far right-wing government of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil has used the COVID-19 pandemic as a smokescreen to undo environmental regulations and undermine the territorial rights of Indigenous Peoples and traditional Afro-Brazilian communities in the Amazon.
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Rogue States Sanction the International Criminal Court | Richard Falk
11 July 2020Even Orwell would be at a loss to make sense of some of the recent antics of leading governments. We would expect Orwell to be out-satirized by the American actions to impose penalties and sanctions on officials of the International Criminal Court
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Russia’s Amendments to The Constitution - Official Version Vs Opposition Response | R.G.Gidadhbli
11 July 2020by R.G.Gidadhbli
On 3rd July Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree that will bring into force a sweeping package of constitutional amendments that were approved overwhelmingly by Russians. According to Russia’s Central Election (...) -
The development of Trotsky’s analysis of the Soviet bureaucracy | Thomas M. Twiss
11 July 2020In his presentation, Paul Le Blanc has provided a brief account of the darkening situation in the Soviet Union in the years following the revolution, of the heroic resistance by members of the Left Opposition, and of the “deep black night” of Stalinism in the mid-late 1930s. He also summarized for us Leon Trotsky’s final theory of Soviet bureaucracy and — I think appropriately —emphasized its value for understanding that history. What I want to do is to briefly sketch the development of Trotsky’s analysis of the problem of Soviet bureaucracy in order to get a deeper understanding and appreciation of his final theory, with all of its strengths and limitations.
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Akhil Gogoi: A peasant leader jailed for supporting the poor and oppressed | Atul and Sandeep Pandey
11 July 2020Akhil Gogoi-a peasant leader and Right to Information activist from Assam has been in jail since December 2019. His crime is that he exercised his fundamental right of speech and expression by protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act.
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What’s Become of My Uttar Pradesh!
11 July 2020, by Humra QuraishiMUSINGS - July 7, 2020
Guns and gun battles! Land mafia ruling and overruling the political mafia, together with the police force! The latest, of course, the gunning down of eight policemen by gangster, Vikas Dubey. Violence and anarchy is (...) -
The NHRC’s report on Jamia Violence has relied on the Dominant Narrative of Delhi Police and ignored the Victim’s Point of Views | Badre Alam Khan
11 July 2020by Badre Alam Khan
Recently the NHRC (National Human Right Commission) has released its report on ‘Jamia Violence’ which took place on 15th December 2019 at night. The Commission in its report has largely blamed the protesting students (who were (...) -
Table of Contents Mainstream - Lockdown Edition no.15 | July 4, 2020
4 July 2020Contents: Mainstream, VOL LVIII No 29, New Delhi, July 4, 2020
Letter to the Readers – Mainstream Lockdown Edition No.15 ; The Editor
Tribute to Jolly Mohan Kaul ; Sankar Ray
Jolly Mohan Kaul (22 Sept 1921 - 29 June 2020) ; Aditi Roy Ghatak (...)
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